The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital. Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.

Jul 13, 2018 · PT’s authors consider how a once iron-clad construct is now up for grabs—and what it means for young people’s mental health today.

Feb 20, 2022 · The following six articles explore the history of mental health and some of the most fascinating and sometimes unbelievable facts about the topic, aiming to raise awareness about mental health and its importance of one’s wellbeing.

Aug 5, 2023 · These facilities catered to mentally ill people with treatments that were supposed to be more humane than what was previously available. But mental health stigmatization coupled with an increase in diagnoses led to severely overcrowded hospitals and increasingly cruel behavior toward patients.

Open buildings and rehabilitative programs involving art, farming, and therapy improved the lives of the individuals with mental illness who lived at one of the rash of new hospitals that opened...

Feb 5, 2023 · Because of a growing population of people needing mental healthcare, asylums rose in popularity and were truly widespread by the mid-1700s. Originally, the idea was that asylums would provide a refuge from harmful environments that doctors felt were responsible for …

Mar 1, 2012 · For the most part, private asylums offered the treatments that were popular at that time. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most physicians held a somatic view of mental illness and assumed that a defect in the nervous system lay behind mental health problems.

Mar 14, 2019 · Counted among those who may be totally unfettered by the mental health system are shelter residents and the homeless. This has led the critics of deinstitutionalization to instead label it “transinstitutionalization.”

Oct 13, 2016 · The Oxford English Dictionary says an asylum is “a benevolent institution according shelter and support to some class of the afflicted, the unfortunate, or destitute.” Payne’s pictures show us the afterlife of once thriving buildings, vital and …

May 26, 2024 · In the popular imagination, the Victorian lunatic asylum is a nightmarish place of cruelty and suffering. Gothic literature and horror films depict terrifying institutions populated by raving madmen and tyrannical doctors. But what was life really like inside Britain‘s 19th century mental hospitals?